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As California goes…

There’s an old saying “As California goes…so goes the rest of the nation.” If that’s true, let’s hope that Californians’ realization of the failures of DEI and the Green New Deal as the cause of these devastating wildfires will spread to the rest of America’s blue states.

You paying attention New Yorkers, Illinoisans, New Jerseyites, , Minnesotans, Washingtonians, Oregonians, and Marylanders? California is the epicenter and laboratory for liberalism and these wildfires have revealed the fecklessness of these policies for all to see.

You know the players: Gavin Newsom the smarmy, greasy-haired governor prioritizing a fish over people by diverting million of cubic feet of water from farmers and cities;

Governor Gavin Newsom

Karen Bass, the awol Los Angeles Mayor out of the country at the start of the fires ,later revealed to have slashed the fire department’s budget;

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass

Kristin Crowley, the first ever female and lesbian L.A. City Fire Chief on record stating her goal for the department is promoting diversity (which really means less white men) and a Janisse Quinones, Department of Water and Power head, making a $750 thousand a year salary who couldn’t even do her basic job of keep the reservoirs filled with water.

A colossal storm of arrogance and incompetence. Watching these officials, has there ever been a more uninspiring bunch? These profiles in failure have even eclipsed even the Joe Biden Administration in their ineptitude.

This is what you get with true believers of cultural Marxism, who prioritize power over serving the people: major disaster.

At least 24 deaths, more than 10 thousand homes and structures damaged or destroyed and nearly 40 thousand acres burned in the Palisades, Eaton, Kenneth and Hurst fires. What’s tragic is this death and damage could have been lessened.

It’s because of environmentalist policies that California has not engaged in wildfire mitigation in decades. They didn’t want to disturb the delicate balance of nature by clearing brush, dead vegetation and undergrowth. This, despite having wildfires every year.

Utter madness!

In fact, Newsom cut $100 million from fire prevention in the 2o24-2025 budget leading up to these fires. However, California spent $24 billion, yes billion , on homelessness in five years.

Mayor Bass cut the Fire Department’s budget by nearly $18 million this year . And get this, she originally wanted to cut the budget by $23 million! In a land of wildfires, public safety is the last thing on minds of these “leaders.” Now, the fires are illuminating California’s anti-human policies, where a fish and plants are more important than keeping taxpayers safe.

By the way, check out this latest video in which an inappropriately smiling Bass attempts to comfort “Angelinos” only to come off as weirdly smug .

What’s a shame is how entrenched the liberal mindset has become in California’s major cities. When you get right down to it, a majority of voters willingly elected this mayor and governor.

Keep in mind, the problem does not lie solely only these two heads of state and city, respectively. California’s State Legislature and the Los Angeles City Council share the same values as Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass.

Even if these two were to both resign, or get recalled by the voters, they’re only the faces of the endemic failure of California liberal politics. This is what the people need to realize and keep in mind from now on with casting their vote in local elections.

Hope you’re paying attention blue state Dems. The policies of your radical Democrat leaders are also setting you up for disaster. Remember, as California goes… so goes the rest of the nation.

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Fires of judgment

Behold, they shall be as stubble,
The fire shall burn them;
They shall not deliver themselves
From the power of the flame;
It shall not be a coal to be warmed by,
Nor a fire to sit before!– Isaiah 47:14 (NKJV
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The fires of judgment continue to rage in Southern California. Besides apocalyptic level destruction and death, the blaze is revealing the incompetence of leadership on the state and local level.

Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, you two are an absolute disgrace. You have failed your state , your city and every constituent affected by these wildfires.

You can both try to blame this devastation on climate change all you want, but even liberals’ eyes are now opening to the fecklessness of Democrat rule in California. Both of you are profiles in failure.

What’s been Newsom’s mission of late? Oh yeah, Trump-proofing California.

Hey governor, how about placing the same effort into fire-proofing burn areas? You know, like ,creating task forces to clear the brush and undergrowth. Additionally, you could have issued public service announcements highlighting of the importance of homeowners fire-proofing their properties.

Imagine if you did those things and came up with innovations for storing the millions of cubic feet of water from snowmelt and rain-runoff instead of letting it flow to the ocean? Instead you serve your globalist, environmentalist masters by diverting water from the people, farmers and cities; all this, supposedly, for saving some bait-fish known as the Delta Smelt .

Yeah, prior to California’s most devastating wildfire, I’m sure many of those very rich (and liberal) homeowners in Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Altadena, Hollywood and Calabasas , unquestioningly believed your BS about Trump being the biggest existential threat to California and America.

But I got news for you, governor. I’m willing to bet that after losing everything they’re going to look at you , your policies and every syllable you say in an entirely different light. We’re talking red-pilling.

Under your watch, California has worsened as a state. Homelessness is rampant, crime is skyrocketing, people and businesses (that is taxpayers ) are leaving the state in droves.

Actually, I stand corrected, Newsom. One business your policies have benefitted is U-haul which has had record profits thanks to people getting the hell out of California.

Which brings me to Mayor Bass , what on earth were you doing in Africa as your city burned? You should have been on the first jet back to California when you got word of the potential seriousness of these Santa Ana winds and the fire danger they posed.

When you finally returned after the initial devastation, it was deer in headlights as you then refused to answer a reporter’s questions regarding your competence?!

Mayor, your primary responsibility is to provide leadership, which means the buck stops with you. That’s your job!

How ironic those Pacific Palisades fire hydrants will become symbolic of yours and Newsom’s leadership: empty. But what else can we expect from leaders focused on DEI rather than taxpayers?

DEI breeds incompetence because when any of these ideologues are elected to leadership, it’s due to identity , not ability.

LA City Fire Chief Kristin Crowley’ made history being the first female and LGBTQ Fire Chief. But was her first leadership challenge ensuring the reservoirs were filled so fire hydrants can work? No it was increasing diversity in the LA City Fire Department by hiring more women.

Bass is the first black female ever elected mayor, yet she recently slashed the fire department’s budget by nearly $20 million, prioritizing the homeless. And of course, Pacific Palisades hydrants went dry under the watch of Janisse Quinones, the first Latina to lead the LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP).

As of this writing, the fires of judgment continue as tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, thousands of structures destroyed and at least 10 people dead. Winds are forecasted to continue off and on through the weekend.

Pray for California and pray God will use these fires to burn the scales from people’s eyes regarding the state’s dangerously inept Democrat leadership.

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Justin Trudeau resigns

Justin Trudeau resigns and patriotic Canadians are elated the rule of Canada’s worst Prime Minister is finally over.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

I say Canada’s worst PM because in survey after survey the people have given Justin that dubious, historical distinction. Yes, that blackface wearin’…

virtue signalling…

dancing fool … certainly made history, but not in the way he hoped.

Trudeau steps down after his Liberal Party kept turning up the pressure for his resignation. Sure, he was one of Canada’s longest serving PMs, and they supported his destructive policies, but hey, Trudeau committed the unforgivable sin of unpopularity with an approval rating in the 20’s.

It’s like, “Sorry Justin, it comes down to party survival and our pensions. Oh, and don’t let the door hit you on your way out.”

As with all left-wing narcissists, Justin virtue signals his exit as some noble and selfless act for the good of the country and the people. Whatever…cue the violins:

Since taking office, Trudeau has continually placed global initiatives such as massive immigration, crushing carbon taxes and the destruction of the Canadian housing market above the needs of his people. Funny how all leftist globalists, no matter the country, never build anything except destruction in their wake.

Ironically, the re-election of President Donald Trump hastened Justin’s downfall. His Liberal Party and the NDP (New Democratic Party) lost faith in his ability to negotiate the tariff matter with Trump.

Trump promises a 25 percent tariff against all Canadian goods if Canada does not stop the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants into the United States.

Something’s afoot behind the scenes on a global scale. Since Trump’s re-election, the globalist coalition is fraying. Germany’s government has collapsed and France’s , barely hanging on.

We’re witnessing a restructuring. The leftist globalist coalition is shrinking right before our very eyes because freedom-loving people have had enough. Justin is merely the latest casualty of this populist momentum.

How Justin kept getting re-elected speaks of either of a brain-dead voter majority or a well- honed election rigging machine.

Was it the latter or the former? Maybe both?

Trudeau’s inevitable demise is a natural consequence from the people when the economy falls into dire straits. People flock to liberalism when financial times are prosperous only to jettison the ideology when it bites them in the pocket book and threatens their personal safety.

Trudeau steps down as leader of the Liberal Party and will remain as PM until a special election chooses a new leader through a “robust, nationwide, competitive process.” As the liberal party selects a new leader, Parliament is prorogued until March 24.

So, like Slim Pickens riding the bomb in Dr Strangelove, the next intermediary Liberal leader will lead the party into its inevitable shellacking in the national election.

Slim Pickens in Dr Strangelove

Who will that be? The majority of Canadian people could care less, answering “none of the above” as a first choice in a recent poll of liberal candidates.

On the ascendency is the Conservative Party led by Pierre Poilievre, who is widely expected to become Canada’s next Prime Minister. We’ll have to wait and see where he takes the country, if elected; but anything would be better than Trudeau.

Pierre Poilievre

Trump’s not even inaugurated yet and a new global order is forming. Poser tyrants such as Justin Trudeau deserve all the shame and ridicule of the people they shafted. It’s the MAGA effect.

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Happy New Year and thank You

Happy New Year and thank you. As we begin 2025, I would like to express a heartfelt and sincere thank you for your support of the Discerning Pundit.

Thank you for reading and sharing these columns. It is much appreciated.

To say 2024 has been a whirlwind year is an understatement. With all that has occurred, from the Presidential campaign, to the two assassination attempts against President Trump, to the elation of an election night win, the holiday spirit has, strangely, been the last thing on my mind.

But thank God, Jesus is the source of our joy, and that our Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers. Praise the Lord a majority of Americans re-elected President Trump in a landslide for a total and complete victory.

While God answered prayer, keeping Trump safe and this country from collapsing –despite the best efforts of the Biden Administration-I can’t help thinking the real work is beginning.

America is on the ropes and without a shared Christian moral foundation, too many people are easily seduced by lies and fables. Why else do you think woke, DEI and even the plandemic were able to gain prominence?

Christians must dedicate unceasing prayer for America, Congress, the Supreme Court, the Trump Administration, governors , mayors , legislatures and city councils. On another level, Christians must also launch imprecatory prayers against wicked policies on both sides of the aisle and the puppet masters pulling the strings behind the scenes.

Washington was not only built on a swamp, its environment and politics is a swamp of corruption and waste.

As Trump now sees Washington and politicians in a different light than during his first term, we must also view things from a new paradigm.

First, we no longer have the luxury of complacency. The days of farming out our liberty to politicians , whether “D” or “R” , are over.

Here’s a word to memorize: scrutiny. It means a close watch or examination. This is a word we must always associate with politicians from now and forever.

You might understand it better as paying attention to how these hacks vote, rather than falling for what they say. We must figuratively grab their feet and hold it to the fire.

Before you dismiss me for spouting a cliche, keep in mind this is from a Christian perspective. When talking about fire, I’m speaking of God spiritually burning away every deception keeping us from the truth.

That’s the job of this blog: commenting on current events using a Biblical perspective. My mission is helping you discern truth from deception.

So happy New Year and thank you for your support. May 2025 be the year you take your prayer and study of Scripture to an entirely new level.

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H-1B flare-up creating civil war within MAGA?

H-1B flare-up creating civil war within MAGA? Things are certainly heating up thanks to the media fanning the flames, but MAGA will be fine. Not so sure about Elon and Vivek , though. They’ve lost standing in the eyes of many in the MAGA base with their defense of the H-1B visa program.

The MAGA backlash was swift and probably eye-opening to both of them. However both are reacting differently . Elon Musk is walking back his original declaration while Vivek Ramaswamy is doubling down on his ill-timed observation.

Elon Musk (photo courtesy of Vanity Fair)

Musk is now calling for major reform to the broken H-1B visa program and proposing to make it more expensive to hire overseas than domestically. Ok , that seems reasonable, much more so than his original angry Tweet:

Threatening to go to war against critics of this abused government immigration program? Part of this “war” must be clamping down on free speech, since X recently censored commentator Laura Loomer’s account for half a day, basically demonetizing her . (more on this later)

Laura Loomer

For someone portraying himself as a champion of the First Amendment, that was a petulant move to MAGA, Elon. Sorry, but silencing the opposition is right out of the Democrat and Uniparty playbook.

As for Vivek, whom I am still on the fence about , his impassioned and ill-timed defense of H-1B sounded much like Uniparty rhetoric about needing immigrants to do the jobs Americans won’t do.

Vivek Ramaswamy

“The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH: Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers. A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.”

Does Vivek make some good points? Yes. Leftists have dumbed down education and created a culture that venerates mediocrity. But bringing in foreign workers isn’t the only answer as the Uniparty would have you believe.

Why not begin a national campaign for academic excellence in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)? Or how about incentives to hire and recruit more Americans to these tech and financial corporations? Our salvation should be marshaling the talents and potential of our own citizenry to meet the challenge, not only importing foreign workers.

Source: Robert Sterling

Defenders of H-1B say the program allows the to recruit the best and the brightest. The problem is the vast majority of H-1B visas are a method to recruit thousands of low -wage IT and financial services workers.

The system allows companies to recruit way over yearly statutory caps and, surprisingly, the vast majority of these employers recruiting these workers are Indian companies headquartered in America. That’s what Robert Sterling found when he crunched the numbers (here).

Sriram Krishnan

This all blew up on Christmas Day after Laura Loomer criticized Trump’s selection of Sriram Krishnan as senior policy adviser for Artificial Intelligence at the White House. Krishnan is on record for removing the caps on green card per country of origin. He did not necessarily comment on expanding the H-1B visas.

Still, Loomer commented she found that “deeply disturbing”, saying,

“Our country was built by white Europeans, actually. Not third-world invaders from India. It’s not racist against Indians to want the original MAGA policies I voted for. I voted for a reduction in H-1B visas. Not an extension.”

Musk and Ramaswamy, soon to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and David Sacks , incoming AI and Crypto Czar, support Krishnan. Hence, the media egging on their portrayal of Loomer as a racist , justifying her censorship on X by Musk.

Any censorship of conservative voices is not a good move. MAGA has an extreme abhorrence to the leftist trope of freezing, targeting and isolating critics as racist, especially when it comes from mouths of so-called Republicans.

Whether people disagree with Loomer’s statements, or not, she should be able to make such comments under the First Amendment. Musk suspending her account was un-MAGA to say the least.

Steve Bannon, mincing no words in his criticism, has called Musk a “toddler” for his initial handling of the situation. Going to war against a guy who hosts a show called “War Room” is not a good thing for Musk or Ramaswamy.

Steve Bannon

Why? The Biden DOJ jailed this guy for contempt of Congress. In a way, he was martyred for MAGA and is a living articulation of it. Therefore, patriots listen when Bannon speaks.

Will this controversy hurt MAGA or Trump? Doubtful. If anything, it’s great this issue has come to the forefront now so debate can commence.

The question now is whether that debate will be fairly carried out on X. The Conservative Treehouse is reporting Musk has changed the algorithm to diminish MAGA voices critical of the Silicon Valley group.

From the Conservative Treehouse

Unlike the left, the Uniparty, or big corporations, MAGA welcomes debate on the controversial. Is this H-1B flare-up creating civil war within MAGA?

No. If anything, this is showing the battle is not left vs. right, but from the top down: elites vs the working class.

Trump will need to step in .

What do you think? Please leave a comment below.

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Congratulations, we broke the woke

Congratulations, we broke the woke. On Election Day 2024, you, me and more than half of America said no more to woke politics.

We first started the death by a thousand cuts by refusing to support their propaganda spewing movies and tv shows where their message had the subtlety of breaking wind. Then, we drove a stake in the heart of this Marxist ideology with the re-election of President Donald Trump.

I’m no prophet, just a concerned patriot typing out these columns on a laptop in his kitchen, but yours truly predicted the beginning of the end of wokeness in this column from January 28, 2023:

You can try to force woke politics down people throats as entertainment, but the public will always speak with their wallets. Threats, fear and intimidation can only get your message so far. After a while people may pay lipservice to get you off their backs, but they will find ways to throw sand in the cogs.

Fear not. For all of its bombast, wokeism will soon be thrown into the ashheap of history as with all Marxist schemes to divide and weaken America.

November 5, 2024 will go down as the election where America said “enough!” Trump’s election broke the the legacy mockingbird media and broke Hollywood. Both came to the shocking realization no one is listening to them anymore.

MSNBC, the tip of spear of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), finds its future and branding in limbo, with its parent corporation , Comcast threatening to spin off this cable network into a new company. With all this, the network’s anchors are negotiating pay cuts. .

That’s right, pay cuts ,not pay raises.

Rachel Maddow, the face of MSNBC, is reported to have agreed to reduce her $3o million a year salary and now MSNBC is in the process of trimming the salaries of biased hosts Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhle.

MSNBC anchors Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhle

Plummeting ratings mean reduced revenues. That’s capitalism 101 liberals. It means why should the networks pay outlandish salaries if the personalities lose their audiences?

MSNBC has lost more than half its viewers since election night November 5, hemorrhaging 55 percent of its primetime audience. CNN has experienced a 47 percent drop.

You know why this happening, mockingbird media? It’s because you lie. You lie about everything, you even tell the public that what they see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears are wrong (gaslighting).

You are nothing but the propaganda arm for the Uniparty, DIABLO’s and Democrats. A DIABLO (Hat tip : Mark Steyn) is a , Democrat In All But Label Only and describes turncoat Republicans more accurately than RINO (Republican in Name Only).

The victories continue during this holiday season. In an interview with CNN, Joe Manchin (D-WV) has properly labeled the Democrat Party as “toxic” and unrepresentative of the values of the American people.

Like most self-serving hacks , Senator Manchin speaks the truth on his way out where his power is unaffected. Never forget, this guy voted with his party over 90 percent of the time.

Still, it’s an inside baseball report detailing the collapse of the left . Want more evidence of the woke politics dam busting? Check this out.

The Biden Administration has tossed out the proposed Title IX transgender sports rule. The administration has ditched plans to prohibit states from banning transgendered women (biological men ) from participating in women’s sports. According to published reports, the Department of Education has announced it has withdrawn the proposed rule in the Federal Register. Read more about this here.

Courtesy: Newsweek

This news is in addition to major companies scrapping their DEI programs such as Toyota, Walmart , John Deere and Harley-Davidson. Walmart recently announced, according to Newsweek,

“… it plans to stop using the terms “LatinX” and “DEI” in official communications, won’t continue the Racial Equity Center it founded in 2020 and will ban any sexualized or transgender products marketed toward children.“

This is yuuge folks. Sanity is gradually being restored before our very eyes.

However, let’s be clear, just because the left is severely weakened right now, doesn’t mean these Marxists no longer pose a danger to America.

These godless radicals will merely watch and wait for any opportunity to exploit. Never ever forget, leftists are always scheming, plotting and patiently awaiting any opportunity to divide Americans against each other.

Let’s not fool ourselves. Those in the elite upper echelons of globalists are clever and evil people. God-fearing Americans must remain ever vigilant to their machinations if we hope to turn this country back from darkness to light.

To my Christian brothers and sisters, that means daily reading and studying of Scripture and constant prayer. We must be the light on a hill and the watchmen from the tower warning of danger. Christians can only tell the truth when they know the truth.

Let us bask in our victory for now. Again, congratulations, we broke the woke, but now the real work begins.

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Why is “A Charlie Brown Christmas” a holiday classic?

From its first airing on December 9, 1965 this program is an honest to goodness staple of Christmas viewing. Which begs the question, Why is A Charlie Brown Christmas a holiday classic?

The reason is a simple one, it is the first network Christmas special to feature the true meaning of Christmas: Jesus Christ , the Lord and Savior of the world.

Lee Mendelson approached Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, after Coca-Cola reached out to producer Mendelson over their desire to sponsor a holiday special. Mendelson and Schulz came up with a concept interspersing snow, ice skating , and a school play. The program would also incorporate jazz with traditional Christmas carols.

Lee Mendelson

Most importantly, Schulz wanted a reading of Christ’s birth by Linus. Despite reservations by Mendelson and animator Bill Melendez of controversy. Schulz insisted, “If we don’t do it , who will?”

Charles M. Schulz

We think of America in the early 60’s as being more conducive to Christianity, when in fact very few Christmas television programs, then, featured any substantive reference to religion.

Bill Melendez

Besides the reading of Luke 2, the show was historic for featuring child actors for the voices of the Peanuts gang. Melendez supplied the only adult vocal, voicing Snoopy. Jazz musician Vince Guaraldi composed the memorable soundtrack for the cartoon .

Vince Guaraldi

After screening the finished show, CBS network execs hated it: the pacing, the child voice talent, and the story. Problem was, they were committed to the time slot. The promos were out and Coca Cola was the sponsor.

Mendelson thought they had a flop on their hands and figured it was going to be one-and-done. But then the reviews came in and the rest is history.

As mentioned earlier, Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz insisted this special must put Jesus in the spotlight which was literally done when Linus, under a spotlight, recited Luke 2 :8-14 after Charlie Brown asked about the true meaning of Christmas.

Did you catch Linus dropping his security blanket when he recited “Fear not”? Watch it again, it’s like a subtle mic drop.

Why is A Charlie Brown Christmas a holiday classic? It’s because of that sincere and touching Linus reading of Luke 2. That Linus monologue is why this cartoon is a tradition to families nearly 60 years after its original broadcast .

Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!

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Shut it down

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson , stop fearing the consequences to the federal government if a CR isn’t passed. Call the Democrats on their bluff and shut it down.

House Speaker Mike Johnson

That’s exactly what President Trump and Vice President -elect JD Vance are calling for. Here’s Trump’s response to this eunuch compromise of legislation.

The bill, more than another yearly stop-gap measure , is reported to be a major change of government policy. Here’s what Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle uncovered:

“It’s not a “stopgap” spending bill. Stop calling it that. It’s a massive change to federal policy.

Includes:

* First Pay Raise for Congress in 15 Years *

*Allows Congress to opt out of Obamacare and join federal workers’ health plans (this was a MAJOR point of contention during Obamacare debate)

* Funds highly controversial censorship efforts at the State Department — These 3 things alone are major policy issues that in a just world wouldn’t be rammed through in a lame duck session as the outgoing Congress was mostly just roasted at the ballot box.

Elon Musk also tweeted that bill would have also allocated three billion for a new NFL Football stadium in Washington DC.

Why should tax payer dollars be allocated for that?

Senator Rand Paul minced no words, calling Johnson a ” weak man.”

A common knee-jerk question is ,”What is it about these compromised milquetoasts , known as Republican Speakers of the House? John Boehner, Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, and now Johnson: Nancy Pelosi seems to have more testicular fortitude than all of these wussies combined.”

Now, it’s not so much of a conspiracy to wonder if maybe these are the Republican roles in the Uniparty: destroying the morale of patriots?

What’s the Democrat role in the Uniparty? They make sweeping cultural and political changes , unopposed, creating the illusion of invincibility to the American people. In other words, any attempts to stop them are futile.

Recognize this scenario? Republicans win a huge election , capturing the Presidency and both Houses of Congress. What do they do for the people who spoke through their ballots? They stab them in the back.

Oh that’s the current scenario, except now someone threw sand in the gears. That someone is Elon Musk, and his bullhorn is X , formerly known as Twitter.

Musk acquiring Twitter will go down in history as a massive victory for free speech. He tweeted dozens of posts after learning of this massive, pork-laden , monstrosity of a bill. Really, over 1500 pages?

Were Musk’s efforts effective? Uhh… yeah?

Those tweets sparked patriots to overwhelm the phones and emails of their representatives to express their outrage. Within hours the House caved, with Johnson pulling the bill.

Controversy continues with a so-called clean spending bill voted down by Dems along with 38 Republicans. And so the annual Christmas-time brinksmanship of funding the government continues. Maybe it’s about time to shut it down and see if the hyperbole of disaster lives up to the reality.

Serious patriots no longer fear a government shutdown, they welcome it.

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NBA ratings in the tank

Hmmm…what’s happening with the National Basketball Association? NBA ratings are in the tank and it’s looking like the trend’s gonna continue. It’s pretty easy to figure out why.

In a recent piece at Breitbart, Colin Cowherd compares the NBA to the Democrat Party saying they lost connection with the people:

“I’m sorry. Go ask the Democrats. Be warned. Once you detach from regular people in America, you will pay a price. And it is not easy to run these leagues,” Cowherd warned.

You can read the full article here

Of all the professional sports leagues, the NBA has seen a steady 12 year decline in viewership. Ratings are down 48 percent since 2012 and this season shows no signs of improving.

As we near the end of 2024, ESPN ratings are down nearly 30 percent from last year , while TNT games are averaging just 1.8 viewers per game. Consider also, that in the past 30 seasons, four of the lowest rated finals have been in the last four years.

Why is this happening to the league of Michael Jordan, Scotty Pippen, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, John Havlicek, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, Dr J, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird?

Is it too many games? Perhaps it is resting and saving star players for the playoffs through the practice of load-management? Maybe it’s the dominance of the three- point shot and less reliance on fundamentals, such as defense. Heck , even the refs are making less traveling calls.

These are certainly impactful factors, but one can easily make the case wokeness is causing NBA’s freefall. Embracing social justice is a turnoff, man.

From players replacing the names on their jerseys with “Black Lives Matter” and “I can’t breathe” to coaches like Steve Kerr criticizing the Second Amendment, fans are out. No one wants a lecture by entitled, out-of-touch and overpaid athletes.

LeBron James being the face of the NBA certainly doesn’t help the league’s image. Can you think of a star player more divisive than James? Obviously, James never absorbed the wisdom of Michael Jordan staying out of politics because “Republicans buy sneakers, too.”

As a certain president once famously said, “Everything woke turns to s**t.”

With NBA ratings in the tank , the decline of Hollywood, and the legacy media’s loss of credibility, I’d say Trump was right on the mark.

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America is back!

Something seismic is happening in the country. You can feel it in the air and sense the energy. America is back!

President-Elect Trump poses with Midshipmen during Army -Navy Game

Just take a look at the National Anthem at the Army/Navy game with President-elect Trump in attendance.

Oh yeah! Aren’t you proud to be American again? How long has it been since you felt that? 2020 perhaps?

Also in attendance with Trump, Elon Musk, Vice President -Elect JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Tulsi Gabbard, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Daniel Penny.

Vice President-elect JD Vance, Daniel Penny and President Donald Trump at Army-Navy Game

Penny was recently found not guilty by a Manhattan jury of criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter in the May 2023 death of Jordan Neely, a vagrant with a history of multiple arrests. Penny, a Marine Corps-vet, placed Neely in a chokehold to protect himself and others after Neely entered the subway car screaming and threatening harm to passengers.

Black Lives Matter types have tried to whip up the fires of outrage after the trial outcome, but their efforts have been an exercise in futility. It’s appears most Americans see Penny as a hero for stepping up to protect innocent people.

This is a perfect example of the times-a-changin.

Joe Biden and Barack Obama would have been in the forefront of the trial verdict, calling it a racist outcome and further stoking the fires of hate if they were dominant. Trump invites Penny into his luxury box as a hero. Which do you think is better for the country?

A celebration of real heroes is returning. We’re talking people risking everything to protect others or overcoming incredible odds, not those deemed “brave” simply because of their race, gender or sexual orientation.

On that note, isn’t it interesting how wokeness and DEI began dissipating in the culture with Trump’s reelection? The American people spoke boldly: no more Marxist and communist influence, we’re taking our country back!

Trump hasn’t even taken office yet and you can feel the optimism this holiday season. That hopefulness started with Thanksgiving, continues as we head into Christmas, and just wait till New Years.

January 20, Inauguration Day can’t come soon enough. America is back!